We are beginning to learn that the Obama presidency will be an era of substantial but deferred accomplishments - perhaps always to be accompanied by a sense of continuing crisis. His vaunted "cool" allows him to wait without impatience and to endure without visible despair. It asks the same of his constituents. These thoughts were generated by the events of the past few days in Washingt...

What Obama is a liar and a thief. Obama is controlling over 50% of the economy and is building up the deficit to unsustainable levels. Obama has been attacking the rights we have as citizens through endless regulations while he continues to kill jobs off in the private sector through his non-stop Government spending bills. So why do you think he has endless patience? Is it when he ditched the press last week or when he sneaks out have a smoke? Obama is a failure and is worse than Jimmy Carter...

all American wrote:What Obama is a liar and a thief. Obama is controlling over 50% of the economy and is building up the deficit to unsustainable levels. Obama has been attacking the rights we have as citizens through endless regulations while he continues to kill jobs off in the private sector through his non-stop Government spending bills. So why do you think he has endless patience? Is it when he ditched the press last week or when he sneaks out have a smoke? Obama is a failure and is worse than Jimmy Carter...

Try not repeating Glenn Beck word for word...

The government is not the Devil, and the private sector is not God. Both are equally flawed, and equally deserving of criticism.

This is a joke, right?Broder cannot be serious.Broder can be that biased, that stupid, that mis-led. The Obama administration has a 2 page catalog of major errors, ineptness, stupidity and ignorance.Unfortunately there is insufficient room here to list them all.But unless you are totally blinkered, you know what I mean.

Commentator wrote:This is a joke, right?Broder cannot be serious.Broder can be that biased, that stupid, that mis-led. The Obama administration has a 2 page catalog of major errors, ineptness, stupidity and ignorance.Unfortunately there is insufficient room here to list them all.But unless you are totally blinkered, you know what I mean.

Again,Is that all you got? Well?Really, "Insufficient room to list them all"? Two pages should be plenty enough to maybe list a few, after all ineptness, stupidity and ignorance are obvious and easily identified. How can an intelligent person claim conservative leanings yet put up posts that are so inept, stupid, and ignorant?Too many to list is just like Sarah"s "all of them" answer to a blatant softball question of what newspapers do you read?The blinkers you refer to are firmly implanted on your own temples, every post you put up discredits any of the intelligence the right may have a claim to, your bits are marginally wordier than Larry Bells, and just as annoying.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

I think Obama does have the "patience" to accomplish his goals of subverting the country. I prefer to call it deviousness or dishonesty though. People did not vote for what he's doing. He cynically came out with conservative rhetoric during the election. He was not going to raise taxes, he was going to bring jobs back, he was going to be nice to Israel, rebuild our strained relationships, he was going to bring bipartisanship, openness, etc. Well, he told you everything you wanted to hear. And he'll keep doing it. Like he just did with the manned space program, which he just ended. Yes, he'll find a way to distract from what he's really doing.

However, Obama has no personal patience. You can see that every time he's questioned or criticized. His eyes well up, he gets angry inside, and then he makes a petty remark back. He's quite cynical, selfish, and petty.

I'm convinced we're witnessing the end of the Democratic Party, at least in its current form. They are completely unresponsive to the needs of the nation during this time. Proposing job killing bills one after another. Instead of focusing on the getting people back to work and stabilizing the economy, they've focused on the environment, kickbacks to political supporters like the unions, and more government control of our lives. Republicans now lead in trust on almost every issue. It would be ironic if Obama, posited as a savior, turns out to destroy the party. He's destroyed the moderate image of Dems that Clinton helped to foster. This guy is far far to the left of where the country is, and Dems as well as the media will pay a high price for lying to the American public about who he really was.

"More than a year ago, Obama outlined a vision of a redesigned system, covering far more people at substantially lower per capita cost. He was notably sparing in how to get there and for many months, it was not clear that Congress would take up the challenge. In the end, a law was enacted that addressed exactly those goals."

The HCR bill that was passed will do nothing to lower the cost of health care. Will do nothing to increase accessability and quality, and will not lower the deficit(unless double counting 500 billion is an acceptable accounting practice).

Commentator wrote:This is a joke, right?Broder cannot be serious.Broder can be that biased, that stupid, that mis-led. The Obama administration has a 2 page catalog of major errors, ineptness, stupidity and ignorance.Unfortunately there is insufficient room here to list them all.But unless you are totally blinkered, you know what I mean.

Again,Is that all you got? Well?Really, "Insufficient room to list them all"? Two pages should be plenty enough to maybe list a few, after all ineptness, stupidity and ignorance are obvious and easily identified. How can an intelligent person claim conservative leanings yet put up posts that are so inept, stupid, and ignorant?Too many to list is just like Sarah"s "all of them" answer to a blatant softball question of what newspapers do you read?The blinkers you refer to are firmly implanted on your own temples, every post you put up discredits any of the intelligence the right may have a claim to, your bits are marginally wordier than Larry Bells, and just as annoying.

While I agree with Commentator, there are so many Obama administration mistakes and they are common knowledge among informed people, a list should be unnecessary but…

Considering a challenge has been issued and Mr. Broder seems to think he can just continue to praise the administration and it will be so; it could be an interesting exercise to start my own list of Obamateurisms.

The real challenge is where to start. Lists of “ineptness, stupidity and ignorance” or serious errors in judgment? Grouped by domestic or foreign policy mistakes, the most egregious or the most annoying?

I’ll start with just a few of what I consider the most blatant or memorable.

Announcing a date certain for closing Gitmo with no idea what was involved or how it would be accomplished.

A lack of judgment or vetting in appointments with Attorney General Holder heading the list (worthy of a list of his own), Napolitano or Bill Richardson as Commerce Secretary then Senator Gregg who ended up declining. Then, of course, all the appointments with tax issues, lead by Geithner, Daschle, Killefer, Kirk.

Treatment of allies the Brits (returning the Churchill Bust, those cheesy gifts, etc.), leaving Poland and the Czech Republic twisting in the wind on missile defense, joining Castro, Morales, Ortega, and Chavez backing Zelaya against the forces of democracy in Hondurus, treatment of the Dalai Lama, attitude towards Israel (Obama‘s recent refusal to be seen with or have pictures taken with Netanyahu), etc.

The administration’s unholy alliance with unions, Andy Stern’s frequent visits to the White House, special deals for unions in legislation, Craig Becker’s appointment to National Labor Relations Board, etc.

After insisting the stimulus bill had to be passed immediately (before anyone could read it or consider it‘s effect), Obama had to take a three day vacation before he could sign it. Making bogus claims about jobs at Caterpillar. The whole “jobs created and saved” nonsense.

The entire “health care” debacle.

After promising a “post racial” presidency he said cops acted “stupidly” while Holder called us a nation of “cowards” unwilling to talk about race.

Going to “war” with Fox news while attacking Americans individually (Santelli, Cramer, Limbaugh) and collectively (yucking it up at a Miami fund-raiser saying Tea Party activists should be thanking him).

His response to the Fort Hood attack.

The fact he has repeatedly pronounced corpsman, corpse-man.

The handling of the attempted Christmas Day bombing.

His “Acme Insurance” story that proved he didn’t even understand anything about insurance.

Assaulting the Supreme Court during the SOTU while misrepresenting the Citizens United decision.

"..the Recovery Act's Making Work Pay tax credit provided a tax cut to 95 percent of working American families. Thanks to Making Work Pay, individuals are collecting $400 more through their paychecks, and married couples are collecting an additional $800.

In addition to Making Work Pay, as a result of the Recovery Act millions of Americans this year benefited from new tax credits including:

* Up to $2,500 for families to help cover rising college tuition expenses, a down payment on the education of the next generation of Americans;

* Up to $8,000 for first time home buyers to help new families purchase their first home and to help stabilize the housing market;

* Up to $1,500 for homeowners to make energy-efficiency improvements to their home; and

* Up to $600 for working single parents through an increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit"

jbowen43 wrote:"..the Recovery Act's Making Work Pay tax credit provided a tax cut to 95 percent of working American families. Thanks to Making Work Pay, individuals are collecting $400 more through their paychecks, and married couples are collecting an additional $800.

In addition to Making Work Pay, as a result of the Recovery Act millions of Americans this year benefited from new tax credits including:

* Up to $2,500 for families to help cover rising college tuition expenses, a down payment on the education of the next generation of Americans;

* Up to $8,000 for first time home buyers to help new families purchase their first home and to help stabilize the housing market;

* Up to $1,500 for homeowners to make energy-efficiency improvements to their home; and

* Up to $600 for working single parents through an increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit"

Thank you for adding to the list of The Obama's mistakes, how many trillions of dollars were added to the deficit with these programs? Now if The Obama would work on getting American citizens back to work, things might improve.

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Oct 11 1798John Adams (Nation's 2nd President)

Thank you BAW, that is good start.But I have two pages of them. If you want details, that amounts to at least another 20 pages.But, I suspect Angel is too dumb to understand that.Are you a blond, Angel?

Commentator wrote:Thank you BAW, that is good start.But I have two pages of them. If you want details, that amounts to at least another 20 pages.But, I suspect Angel is too dumb to understand that.Are you a blond, Angel?

Well as you correctly stated, in Broder’s first paragraph alone there is a clear indication of bias or worse. It’s nothing short of delusional.

“We are beginning to learn that the Obama presidency will be an era of substantial but deferred accomplishments - perhaps always to be accompanied by a sense of continuing crisis. His vaunted "cool" allows him to wait without impatience and to endure without visible despair…”

Then as you said, “…unless you are totally blinkered, you know what I mean” and in comes an Obama defender who acts like reality does not exist.

Throwing out the typical emotional taunts, a Palin shot, a personal attack on you, alleging a lack of substance, denying what any reasonable person knows.

I couldn’t resist. It was just too easy. Of course, one day someone will write a book.

all American wrote:What Obama is a liar and a thief. Obama is controlling over 50% of the economy and is building up the deficit to unsustainable levels. Obama has been attacking the rights we have as citizens through endless regulations while he continues to kill jobs off in the private sector through his non-stop Government spending bills. So why do you think he has endless patience? Is it when he ditched the press last week or when he sneaks out have a smoke? Obama is a failure and is worse than Jimmy Carter...

Try not repeating Glenn Beck word for word...

Whats wrong with you? Oh, you must be watching CNN and listening to 760 A.M. You must think Obama is perfect and that he is spending the Country out of this recession instead of making things worse by writing endless hot checks.